Transcending school. The continental impact of the Argentine educator Olga Cossettini, based on the experience of "El niño y expresión", in the 1940's.

FERNANDEZ, SANDRA

PAEDAGOGICA HISTORICA

Routlege-Taylor & Francis Group

Año: 2019 vol. 55 p. 1 - 16

0030-9230

In the early 1940´s Olga Cossettini, an Argentine teacher, received missives from several representatives of the cultural and educational world of the Americas. The event that allowed Cossettini?s international relevance was the school artwork exhibition that took place in November, 1939 in the Castagnino museum in the city of Rosario (Argentina).This experience surpassed the actual event when in 1940 a book of the same as the exhibition was published. Its distribution led to Cossettini being invited personally by Henry Allen Moe to apply for the Guggenheim Fellowship and it also made her name and work known in Pan-American organizations of varied nature.The aim of this article is to put forward the personal and institutional networks and contacts that Cossettini developed, such as Ego, which allows us to observe the shaping process of Pan-American intellectual connections. These included ideas that although founded in educational experiences, transcended them.